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...Nation and World sections, four picture researchers and dozens of correspondents round the world. From Danang, where U.S. Marines first waded ashore into Viet Nam, Correspondent William McWhirter witnessed hysteria as Communist forces surrounded the city. At midweek, McWhirter was ordered out on an emergency evacuation flight to Saigon...
...five more provinces, bringing the total under their control to 13 (out of 44). But the real shocker was the swiftness of the fall of Danang, South Viet Nam's second largest city and the onetime center of U.S. Marine operations in Viet Nam. The weekend announcement by Saigon officials that the city had been overrun by the Communists marked the South's greatest single defeat of the war. The Thieu government had now abandoned or been forced from more than half of the country's territory...
...victory in more than two decades, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops and tanks on Sunday overran Danang, the country's second largest city. According to reports by South Vietnamese officials, this victory gives the Communists nearly complete control of the entire northern half of South Viet Nam; Saigon's forces now hold only a number of coastal enclaves, and it is only a matter of time before they, too, fall. The abrupt collapse of government resistance in Danang climaxed a week in which Communist troops advanced almost at will down the central plains of South Viet...
...Saigon, when the big retreat began, almost all U.S. news bureaus were shorthanded, as they had been ever since the 1972-73 U.S. troop evacuation. In many cases there was only a lone correspondent in the capital. Moving fast to help cover the refugees and troops streaming south, the American press jetted in reinforcements from everywhere. The Chicago Tribune switched its Far Eastern correspondent, Ronald Yates, from Phnom-Penh to Saigon within 24 hours of the news of the retreat; the New York Times moved in Pulitzer Prizewinner Malcolm Browne from Belgrade, Bernard Weinraub from India and Fox Butterfield from...
...moment. Such freedom was a marked change from the secret-police tactic of beating up Western newsmen covering demonstrations, or the possibility that the Information Ministry might not renew the visa of any reporter writing an unfavorable story. It was almost old home week for the press in Saigon. But the shadow of defeat darkened the occasion...